From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRNPu-0001i8-5R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:10:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C4F4E0330; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.vergina.dyndns.org (62.1.125.199.dsl.dyn.forthnet.gr [62.1.125.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDAEDE0330 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 10:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (dwarfy.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.13]) by poseidon.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F373FB7B; Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:09:36 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <4B406CDF.7010301@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:09:35 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091229 Thunderbird/3.0 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Dirk Heinrichs , LKML Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported References: <4B3B3043.20400@asyr.hopto.org> <200912301208.54359.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <4B3B38F2.6090006@asyr.hopto.org> <4B3CF04E.8070603@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 08f2eefc-15ce-4476-bf8b-5d1960e69fdf X-Archives-Hash: 6ba4b180cd12396cb1f9a25af881151c on 01/01/2010 03:38 PM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: > Thanasis writes: > > >>> Depends on the "split" used. With 2 GB : 2 GB you can have all-lowmem >>> 1.5 GB RAM, without CONFIG_HIGHMEM*. 2 GB of per-process address space >>> is usually not a problem. >>> >> How do you implement that? What do you mean 2GB:2GB split ? >> > See "make menuconfig", Processor type and features -> Memory split. You > need to select "EMBEDDED" and "EXPERIMENTAL" first. What you need for > 1.5 GB RAM is VMSPLIT_2G. > > The idea is that the CPU address space is divided: ca. 2 GB (in this > configuration) for user space (for each process - instead of 3 GB), > 2 GB - 128 MB (or something like that, I don't remember exactly) for > physical RAM, and the last 128 MB or so for PCI devices and other > things. > Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ?